oooh I have one AT last ....its charging its a ROOOOOOOMBA!!!

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I am delighted and so gutted tha i have to wait 16 long hours!

Any tips before it disappears under someones bed!

EXCITED!!!

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I have a cheaper version (only £60) and it's great.

There is no way I would pay £200!

I have one and want the mop version now too!

It's great - I leave it on while I do the school run and come back to a crumb free floor.

My only gripe is that it leave loads of track marks on our rug, so I don't use it on that. (dh thinks I am a bit anal about the rug though )

AbbaFan - what's the £60 version you've got? Sounds more in my price league!

It's called Auto Vacuum, not sure where it's from though as DH ordered off some website.

Thanks AbbaFan - the search starts today!

I heart Roomba as well. The Scooba is going to be available in the UK "shortly" according to the website.

I have my name down for them to email me when it happens.

Do you think they ae working on an attachment to do stairs? Wouldn't it be the icing on the cake?

I love our Roomba - dont know how we lived without it!

Wow the Scooba looks fab - i would love one of those as most of our downstairs is wood.

Dh wants the one for the garden (cant remember the name)

Agree tis fab not to have to get the hoover out after meals times, just programme the roomba to work at certain times and 'tada' the pain is taken away

The thing I heart the most about mine is it means I can get dh to do the hoovering (in his defence, a SAHD who's chronically ill). Because he finds it hard to pick everything off the floor first he sends it round via remote control whilst he watches the telly - wicked.

Who was it whose cat rides around on the Roomba?

Hehe, we've been considering getting one for a while. I think the combination of the time it took me to hoover his morning and the enthusiasm in this thread might have swung the balance.

Now the scooba I can see the point of. My kitchen floor is huge and glossy cream and a farking nightmare to keep clean. A scooba would help me immeasurably on that one.

My DH wants to know if they do one to cut the lawn?

mooki - found lawnmowers here always find it's not a good sign when it's P O A mind you it's a good bargaining tool for the roomba as it's probably sooooo much cheaper.

OK you've sold it to me. Are they available in Australia or will I have to pay $1million (at least) to ship one?

OMG they're actually available here!! But they're $500.

I love mine too but it is starting to leave debris around ...not so good at sucking up as it once was!!! Do I need to get new inside brushes or something?

Aprilmeadow - you can only use the scooba on wood floors if they are varnished. It takes hard wax oil off so that the floors are then unfinished and mark .

Aha! I'm stalking one on Ebay Australia for $200. That's much more like it.